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Chicago examiner vol xiv no 47 a m tuesday Chicago february 15 1916 tuesday registered u 6 patent office price one cent ta s and w^Â£?t thompson forms new m v l of his own mayor's friends demand charter as municipal voters league at capital on ground old cor poration of foes has lapsed city administration leaders admit plan to bring suits against members of organization for attacks on political records the city hall opened fire on its enemies from a new and unex pected angle yesterday when by conrt action it sought w"Â£e1ze the tame of the municipal voters mague as a precaution against loss the suit a charter was obtained tor the Chicago municipal voters jleague from inner circles of the thomp feon administration came a hint that fche proceedings has for its principal bbject the revealment of the munici pal voters league as a mere collec tion of individuals acting without a fharter and each liable for damages pn account of his sharp criticisms t>f public officers and candidates , attack on league made at springfield a secondary use for the city hall's harter undoubtedly will be the ls ruance of reports on candidates and officials that will read more pleas tatly to the administration's ears han the recent publications of the eague founded by george e cole in 18?6 the attack is being staged at springfield assistant corporation jounsel john v clinnin e b miller lecretary of the lowden-thompson 3ook county club and j lincoln faff applied for incorporation papers r the municipal voters league pfaff is a tailor and close personal triend of mayor thompson miller 8 a brother of city prosecutor harry s miller he formerly worked in he health department where he was fclven a position through the cancel lation of a civil service list there kr&s considerable criticism of the fnatter and the examination finally ras held miller did not take the ex amination and lost his job name Chicago added to charter granted they set forth that the original body of that name incorporated in 1896 had failed to make its annual report in 1901 as required by statute and that for this reason its charter was forfeited that the charter was can celed by the secretary of state in 1902 the further claim was made that the league was not recorded in cook county and that it had lost its cor porate existence through failure to file a record or comply with the pro vision requiring it to file a record with the county recorder secretary of state stevenson re fused the charter but granted one under an amended application for the Chicago municipal voters league " threatens mandamus against secretary under a supreme court ruling aid mr stevenson the cancellation ft the charter of a domestic corpora tion for failure to make its annual report does not dlssolvo such cor poration neither does the failure >â€¢Â«<(Â«"â€¢ the name available for use oy ft new corporation bo mr clinnin yesterday went into k circuit court of sangwnon a plot to kill 40 Chicago bankers and wreck buildings revealed in anarchists letters poisoning onlypart of great conspiracy attempt to kill archbishop and 300 guests was directed from italy and involves fif ' ,. teen anarchists in Chicago power of international plotters is revealed when million dol lars bail is offered for alle grini friend of the poisoner the attempted assassination by poison of archbishop munde lein and mfl gneats t thg ttirffr Â« | versity club was part of a^porld wide plot of destruction by an an archistic organization of tremendous j power with headquarters in rome i and with a membership of fifteen in | Chicago so great is the power of the or i ganization back of the plots that last night 250,000 in cash and an additional 750,000 in real estate was offered as bail for the only alleged member of the gang the police have been able to find thus far ! holy name cathedral 40 bankers marked anti-religious in inception this society of chaos also holds an inborn hate of government and of wealth the Chicago campaign of the fifteen local members included razing of th peoples gas light & coke building the union league club the federal building and the holy name cathe darl in addition to the attempt on the lives of the guests at the banquet to archbishop mundelein and other attempts on the lives of forty Chicago bankers these startling things became known to captain of detectives hunt assistant chief of police schuettler and the members of the italian squad of the detective bureau yes terday through translation of a num ber of letters found in the possession of john allegrinl of 2408 calumet avenue held on charges of conspir | acy to murder and attempted murder as one of fifteen members of the Chicago chapter of anarchists letters reveal plots to dynamite and kill allegrini is accused as an accom plice of jean crones sought for days as the man who put 480 grains of arsenic in the soup to be served at the university club banquet the letters which gave captain hunt and his detectives the first clews to the gigantic ramifications of the plot were found in the room occupied by allegrini at 2408 calu met avenue where crones formerly j lived detective sergeant paul ric a cio began translating them at once when he had gone over about thirty i â– of the 200 or more seized he had i compiled a list of fifteen members jb of the gang with Chicago addresses i he gave this list to captain hunt.b and a checking over of stenographich records gathered by assistant chlefh schuettler at anarchist meetings inl the last few months showed the(h names to be well known special guard assigned to protect cathedral detectives were at once assigned to find the men captain hunt used every means 1n . his power to keep knowledge of the extent of the plot from becoming public when the newtb wÂ«s out i nation s honor at stake u s tells austria to explain petrolite attack serious view of situation re vealed at washington flag insulted is claim by international news service washington feb 14 the unit ed states holds that the nation's honor is involved in the case of the standard oil steamer the petrolite which was fired upon by an austrian submarine in the mediterranean sev eral weeks ago this became known to-day when a high official of the state department asserted that un le_s austria satisfactorily explains the attack serious consequences may follow the instructions sent to am bassador penfield at vienna have not been made public it was learned to day however that they call for an explanation from austria at once it was stated authoritatively that the terms of the demand are the stiffest yet used by this government in ad dressing a foreign power the petrolite was fired upon after it had stopped and turned broadside toward the submarine in order to show plainly the american flag painted upon its side in addition the submarine commander showed his contempt by taking a member of the petrolite's crew aboard the sub marine as hostage until supplies had been taken from the petrolite cartoonist sterrett saves four in fire by international news service lynbrook n y feb 14.â€”awak ened by the screams of women clif ford sterrett cartoonist who draws the well-known polly and her pals comics which appear in the Chicago evening american braving the zero weather rescued four persons from their burning home early to-day the fire was in the dwelling occupied by william bradley sterrett found bradley his wife their four-year-old son and mrs bradley's mother on the roof of a porch with the flames eat ing their way to them sterrett ef fected their rescue by means of a lad der allies against british trade interference by international news service washington feb 14 â€” president wilson and henry van dyke amer ican minister to holland conferred to-day on questions of british inter ference with american mails and re striction of trade it was aid by an official that inti mations have come that some of great britain's allies do not sustain her mail seizures no further action will be taken on mail seizures until britain re plies to recent united states charges of disregard of the inviolability of the mails as set forth by the hague conventions princess engalitcheff is in court again by international news service new york feb 14 â€” the divorce suit of the princess engalitcheff for merly of Chicago was reopened to day by supreme court justice bijur who has under advisement her ap plication for a decree he wanted to know how the princess happened to sue before she was aware of the tes timony of her best witness her lawyer explained that she had other evidence on which the suit could have been won ( national university proposed by sherman by international news service washington feb 14 a bill to establish an institution of higher learning to be known as the na tional university of the united states and to be located in wash ington was introduced to-day by senator sherman of Illinois lewis indorsed as wilson running mate rockford 111 feb 14 â€” senator james hamilton lewis was indorsed for vice president at a meeting of democrats of the twelfth congres sional disÂ»iÂ£t at de kalb to-day airmen fire on premier of france train target for bombs as bri and returns to rome after conference with the king milan and three other cities attacked six persons killed famous cathedral is unhurt by international news service london feb 14 an austro-hun garian air squadron to-day tried to blow up the train bearing premier briand of france m leon bourgeois minister without portfolio in the french cabinet and other leaders back from a conference with king victor emmanuel at his headquar ters at the front a close censorship has been clamped down on all italian cable and tele graph lines and it is not known how close the raiders came to the train only meager dispatches have been allowed through these merely state that it is believed in rome the ex clusive object of the raid was to wreck the train milan is bombarded the air flotilla dropped bombs in milan according to news reaching here six persons are reported to have been killed and several wound ed three other large towns tlrevig lio bergamo and brescia also were visited the following sentence is attached to the end of a dispatch from milan to the daily news the famous milan cathedral es caped unscathed the cathedral is within a few hun dred yards of the royal palace the rest of the dispatch dealt with sat urady's raid on ravenna rome admits attack the official statement issued to night in rome says at monsa this morning austrian aeroplanes dropped bombs killing one man and wounding five one bomb fell on the expiatory chapel to the late king humbert intense pop ular indignation was aroused two incendiary bombs were dropped near treviglio and three at bergamo but no damage was done at brescia six austrian aeroplanes attempted to fly over the city but were driven off by anti-air craft guns and recrossed the frontier singer's gown slips and audience gasps by international news service new york feb 14 â€” erma zars ka one of the singers at the evening performance at the metropolitan opera house not only furnished good music but also a sensation the first senr.ation was caused by her dress which was a creation direct from paris the only way to describe it is to say the audience saw a great deal of erma be that as it may just as the lady was about to sing somehting happened mile zarska said later that her shoul der strap slipped anyhow some un feeling person in the upper gallery softly blew a police whistle airship reported over jersey war plant by international news service new york feb 14 reports from philipsburg n j said that an airship equipped with a powerful searchlight circled over that city to night it is said to have hovered for some time over the plant of the in gersoll-rand company munition makers it is said to have disap peared in the direction of bethlehem pa t r next president bonaparte predicts by international news service baltimore feb 14 â€” in a speech to-day before the progressive party oi maryland charles j bonaparte former attorney general forecast the election of 1 roosevelt a t::e next president we want a dent who means what he says and says what he means and does wha'-he says he will do h said 400,000 women to be recruited by britain for work on farms each volunteer enlisted will wear an armlet and spe cial uniform by international news service london feb 14 â€” the daily news announces that the government has decided to organize a recruiting cam paign for women to till the soil every village will be canvassed by woman committees and all who vol unteer will be registered and given an armlet and uniform which con sists of a coat skirt stout boots and gaiters these are to be issued at a low price already 250,000 men have been withdrawn from the field of agricul ture and it is anticipated that a fur ther 100,000 will be lost to this oc cupation practically only the shep herds plowmen and others who are indispensable will remain it is essential that an army of at least 400,000 women be mobilized metcalfe challenges bryan to debate omaha neb feb 14 â€” richard l metcalfe former governor of the panama canal zone and now a pub lisher to-day challenged william j bryan to a joint debate on prepared ness mr metcalfe in his telegram to mr bryan at miami fla asked that six joint debates be arranged one in each congressional district of nebraska during the tour of the lat ter mr metcalfe has been intimately associated with mr bryan in journal istic and political work for twenty eight years his appointment to the canal zone came through mr bryan canal zone came through mr bryan he having been editor of the com moner mrs addington faints viewing ballet russe the fashionable audience gathered in the auditorium theater last night to witness the ballet russe benefit performance for the eli bates settle ment became excited when mrs keene h addington of lake forest fainted in her seat mr addington was as sisting her downstairs when she faint ed a second time a physician in the audience attended her and she was taken to the blackstone hotel where a trained nurse is in attendance it was said mrs addington had been in a â€¢ highly nervous state since her daughter was operated on recently dreams of danger hugs baby to death by international news service grand rapids feb 14.â€”dream ing that she was being pursued and that she and her baby were in dan ger of death mrs joseph kliniwk held the child so closely in her arms that it was killed this is the explanation of the woman who attempted to kill her self her to-day by swallowing sev eral tablets of bichloride of mercury it is believed she will die wm jasper nicolls rail engineer dies by international news service philadelphia feb 14 â€” wil liam jasper nivolles author and wide ly known civil and mining engineer dropped dead here to-day in the art club he was sixty-two years old and was an assistant engineer of the reading railway chief engineer of the pennsylvania steel company and chief engineer of the long island railway company u s weather forecast Chicago a\d vicinity â€” gener ally fair tuesday and wednesday moderate temperature for the season gentle variable wind temperature normal temperature for the day 25 excess of temperature since january 1 74 degrees precipitation for twenty-four hours ending 7 j p m 0.05 inches excess of precipitation since january 1 2.20 inches relative humidity 7 a m 74 2 p nu 61 7 p m 58 barometric pressure reduced to sea lerel 7 9 ro 30.71 7 p m 30.52 sunrise to-day 0:46 sunset 5:23 general weather conditions on page 14 evidence against orpet is complete state's attorney dady says sui-i cide theory is shattered and that indictment for murder in first degree will be asked student bought phial at madison on day he left for scene of death poison cache found in basement of greenhouse the carefully planned alibi of william h orpet a junior at the university of wisconsin to conceal his clandestine meeting with marian frances lambert the | lake forest high school girl who | died from poison in helm's woods while orpet was with her was brushed aside like a gossamer veil discovered in his duplicity orpet | outlined his defense he acknowl edged lie was present when the girl lied but said she had taken poison with suicidal intent he disclaimed any knowledge of the poison or that he knew the girl had it in her pos session i buys phial on day he left for home this second curtain of defense raised after the death of the girl is gradually being torn to shreds yesterday it developed that orpet had purchased a phial at a drug store in madison wis on last tues day just before he left for lake forest and a poison cache contain ing cyanide of potassium and sul phuric acid the two poisons indi cated by a chemist's analysis as hav ing caused the death of miss lam bert was discovered in the base ment of the greenhouse on cyrus h mccormick's estate where orpet's father is superintendent and care taker and makes his home orpet said that he spent tuesday night on the mccormick estate sleep ing in his father's yard but that his presence was not disclosed the greenhouse was never locked and he had ready access to the store of deadly poisons in the cellar state's case called complete by dady when state's attorney ralph dady had added these discoveries to the evidence in hand he announced that the state's case was complete and he waited only on the action of the coro ner's jury to take up his duty as prosecutor mr dady said he was ready to be gin a prosecution for murder he said that orpet might have given miss lambert the poison as harmless medicine but that the probability of a suicide pact was stronger he pointed out that lambert had access j to the same deadly poison that caused miss lambert's death and had pur chased a phial which may have been the container for the poison he stated positively that young orpet had spent tuesday night on the mc cormick estate and that his presence ; there was known to others yesterday the following facts tending to clear up these essential details in the solution of the crime were established the poison that killed miss lam bert was cyanide of potassium probably in a saturated solution with sulphuric acid a poison cache containing both < a narchistic plot widest unearthed in years says hunt rhe power of the international organization which plot ted the destruction of many lives and millions of dol lars in property was outlined in this statement made last night by chief of detectives hunt the attempt at the university club is relatively trivial though i do not mean that it might not have had conse quences of the gravest nature i mean that it is merely inci dental evidence of what is unquestionably one of the widest most comprehensive and dangerous conspiracies that has been unearthed in Chicago in years the lawyers representing allegrini are prepared to put up 1,000,000 bail if necessary where does the money come from the organization is not purely anarchistic i w w or anti-clerical â€” it is a combination of all three wife's suit opens tale of mystery dual identity of utah convict confounded sentenced as g r perry says perry is dead in the utah state penitentiary con vict 5054 is serving a twenty-year sentence on a charge of forgery the prison records show that he la dr joseph h abbott a deserter from the united states army and a fortune hunter the records also show that the prisoner was known under the alias of grant r perry the story to which the prison rec ords bear evidence is one of a re markable dual identity another chapter was added to it yesterday by a divorce suit in the superior court begun by mrs mary e perry against grant r perry self-confessed forger and embezzler and with it is again raised the question is the dr joseph h abbott â€” convict 5054 â€” grant r perry and is he shielding himself behind the name of a bosom friend a physical counterpart or was perry drowned two years ago and did dr abbott continue for gery operations begun by perry which had ostracized him from wife and friends attorney e c mapledoram who filed the bill for mrs perry pro fessed little knowledge of whether perry is in prison at liberty or dead with the bill an affidavit was filed by mrs perry declaring her ignor ance of her husband's location she avers that she last heard from him on october 1 1913 it was just about that time that perry visited the office of arthur burrage farwell reformer and con fessed he had embezzled 2,500 mr farwell called in several of perry's friends and together they made up the amount of the defalca tion perry attempted to live straight and make good the money put up by his friends then he stole jl.ooo worth of stock of the general elec tric company and disappeared perry at that time lived at 6303 kenwood avenue with him lived dr joseph h abbott so much were the two men alike that he was known as perry's shadow they were physical counterparts and were in separable soon after perry's disappearance dr abbott was lost sight of then reports came to the pinkerton detec tive agency from various banks in western cities that a systematic check forgery scheme had swindled them out of thousands of dollars the pinkertons traced the forgeries to perry he was arrested eighteen months ago in seattle taken back to salt lake city utah and sentenced to serve twenty years in the peniten tiary when he was about to be taken to prison he said i am not perry he was drowned in the mississippi river near sioux pity tw years ago i found it out j-0 i used his name to forge checks j my real name is dr joseph h labbott i make this confession to clear perry's name penny fare raid ends new concern thousands of workers said to have purchased coupon books with privilege of sellingthree three detective sergeants from the state's attorney's office stood yes terday afternoon in the long line of customers which poured from the elevators of the brede building ic9 north dearborn street into room 1201 and the office of the one-cent fare company â€” not incorporated across the two cheap table-desks in the lit tle office they shoved a subpoena issued by assistant state's attorney william h duval ordering the ar rest of the members of the company those taken are max london 3716 west eighteenth street operator of a similar unirt corporated company in detroit julius friedlander 716 waveland avenue former pawnbroker twice arested for receiving stolen prop erty joseph gavin 3227 west division street real estate dealer and broth er-in-law of friedlander the detectives raided the one-room office and confiscated what was left of the thousands of coupon books which the trio have been selling for 75 cents apiece to thousands of chi cagoans in the assistant state's at torney's office where london fried lander and gavin together with the records of the one-cent fare conr pany were taken the trio explained how they had sold to between five and ten thousand shop girls clerks and office workers their ingenious adaptation of the old endless chain game since december 6 1915 when the one-cent fare company in the per son of london its self-appointed president and general manager sub rented the boxlike office from lillian a cox a public stenographer in room 1201 the company has been offering twenty-five 5-cent street car tickets for 25 cents there was nothing benevolent about the proposition however for the offer was qualified by the fact that it was first necessary for the purchaser to pay 75 cents for a book of three coupons each of which he was to sell for 25 cents apiece to three friends until the three friends had likewise appeared and purchased three additional coupon books for a total of 2.25 the original customer could not claim his street car tick ets the raid on the office of the one cent fare company yesterday result ed from a tip to the examiner and subsequently to the state's attorney's office by arthur hochstadter and fred siegel actors residing at 2427 kedzie boulevard both of whom had seen a similar scheme stopped by new york authorities london friedlan der and gavin after their arrest by detective sergeants murphy mcken na and sullivan were released on j their promise to abandon the opera i tion of the company pÂ»i*.fcniÂ«d n 2d page bth column ' coritdued'on 4th page ist column : flnai^l i edition j k your comfort first jjja â– hi then convenience and price should be taken into considera tion when renting a furnished w 1 room you'll find all three in b m the attractive rooms advertised i iyi in the examiner's want ad â– 1fvv1 s ec tion \ =

Chicago examiner vol xiv no 47 a m tuesday Chicago february 15 1916 tuesday registered u 6 patent office price one cent ta s and w^Â£?t thompson forms new m v l of his own mayor's friends demand charter as municipal voters league at capital on ground old cor poration of foes has lapsed city administration leaders admit plan to bring suits against members of organization for attacks on political records the city hall opened fire on its enemies from a new and unex pected angle yesterday when by conrt action it sought w"Â£e1ze the tame of the municipal voters mague as a precaution against loss the suit a charter was obtained tor the Chicago municipal voters jleague from inner circles of the thomp feon administration came a hint that fche proceedings has for its principal bbject the revealment of the munici pal voters league as a mere collec tion of individuals acting without a fharter and each liable for damages pn account of his sharp criticisms t>f public officers and candidates , attack on league made at springfield a secondary use for the city hall's harter undoubtedly will be the ls ruance of reports on candidates and officials that will read more pleas tatly to the administration's ears han the recent publications of the eague founded by george e cole in 18?6 the attack is being staged at springfield assistant corporation jounsel john v clinnin e b miller lecretary of the lowden-thompson 3ook county club and j lincoln faff applied for incorporation papers r the municipal voters league pfaff is a tailor and close personal triend of mayor thompson miller 8 a brother of city prosecutor harry s miller he formerly worked in he health department where he was fclven a position through the cancel lation of a civil service list there kr&s considerable criticism of the fnatter and the examination finally ras held miller did not take the ex amination and lost his job name Chicago added to charter granted they set forth that the original body of that name incorporated in 1896 had failed to make its annual report in 1901 as required by statute and that for this reason its charter was forfeited that the charter was can celed by the secretary of state in 1902 the further claim was made that the league was not recorded in cook county and that it had lost its cor porate existence through failure to file a record or comply with the pro vision requiring it to file a record with the county recorder secretary of state stevenson re fused the charter but granted one under an amended application for the Chicago municipal voters league " threatens mandamus against secretary under a supreme court ruling aid mr stevenson the cancellation ft the charter of a domestic corpora tion for failure to make its annual report does not dlssolvo such cor poration neither does the failure >â€¢Â«